Harness-buckle and trace-support



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W. BRADY.

HARNESS BUGKLE AND TRACE SUPPORT.

No. 522,876. Patented July 10. 1894.

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UNITED STATES" WILLIAMBRADY, OF WENONA, ILLINOIS.

HARNESS-BUCKLE AND TRACE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 522,876, dated July10, 1894.

Application filed October 27, 1893. Serial No- 489, 46-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BRADY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Wenona, in the county of Marshall and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l-Iarness-Buckles and Tracesupports, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawingsand the letters of reference thereon, forming a part of thisspecification, in which-.-

Fignre 1 is a view of the buckle and its attachment as viewed from itsouter side. Fig. 2 is aview of the reverse side of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asection on line 1 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a View of the outer side ofthe buckle having a billet attached thereto by means of a rivet. Thisinvention relates to certain improvements in billet holders for harnessbuckles, which improvements are fully set forth and explained in thefollowing specification and claim.

Referring to the drawings B represents an ordinary tug buckle for aharness. The billet holder is represented as being an attachmentthereto, and integral therewith, and consists of the parts D and E,forming extending arms, and the integral cross bar Ffor con necting theouter ends ofsaid arms.

The arms D are in the form of angle iron in cross section as shown inFig. 8, and ar- (No model.)

ranged so that the billet W passes under their projecting flanges tosecure it in place, while the back of the billet rests on the arm E andcross bar F, and is intended to be riveted to the arm E by one or morerivets R passing through a rivet hole S. By means of this means ofattachment of the billet to the buckle much time is saved in sewing thebillet to the buckle as in the ordinary way, and a very considerableamount of leather is saved, as it is not necessary to sew the end of thebillet back upon itself. Also the billet will last longer on account ofnot having any movement in the holder. This billet holder may beattached to any buckle or any other part of a harness where a billet isused.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A buckle attachment for holding billets comprising the two parallelflanged arms, parallel arm arranged centrally between said flanged armson a dilferent plane from their flanges, and having a rivet hole, and across bar for connecting the outer endsof all of said arms, all combinedand arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. WILLIAMBRADY. Witnesses:

JOHN F. HOYE, JOHN V. H. HODGE.

